Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Poz.com reports: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency responsible for enforcing laws against workplace discrimination, has released the final revised version of its Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations, according to an EEOC statement. The EEOC’s new regulations clarify that impairments of major bodily functions-such as being HIV positive-qualify as disabilities under the law. The revisions …

In January the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) proposed sweeping new rules adding LGBT people as a protected class in all of its programs. That doesn’t sit well with the Catholic Conference of Bigoted Bishops, who have sent HUD a letter strongly opposing the change. “By this, we do not mean that any person should be denied housing. …

Video mash-up artist Kutiman creates new original tracks using snippets of clips he found on YouTube. Oddly compelling.

Yesterday the Log Cabin Republicans filed a brief with the Ninth Circuit Court demanding the immediate end of DADT. The ban on openly gay soldiers remains in place while the Pentagon “certifies” that its repeal won’t harm military effectiveness. [Log Cabin] said that keeping the ban in place after President Barack Obama signed an order to repeal it is “absurd”. …

“This shows that you cannot trust the Democrat legislators, the homosexual agenda people at all, and you cannot trust the teachers unions — the California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers boldly and brashly supported this bill in committee. They want children in the classrooms statewide to be taught that they can be homosexual or bisexual or transsexual …

I dig the track, a lot, but the video really hooked me.

“I’m against making people feel uncomfortable or unsafe in their own homes. Even bigots. And staging protests outside people’s homes is a tactic usually employed by rightwing anti-abortion activists and the KKK back in the day. I don’t think this is a tactic that gay rights movement should endorse or adopt. “To bring this down to a personal level: I …

I mentioned Family Research Council leader Tony Perkins’ racist history and affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan a couple of years ago, but this bears repeating for those that missed it. In 1996, while managing the U.S. Senate campaign of Woody Jenkins against Mary Landrieu, Perkins paid $82,500 to use the mailing list of former Klan chieftain David Duke. The …

Even in Spanish, somehow this sounds instantly familiar.